Letters to the Editor: September 2025

Love Where There Is No Love... A Failure of Formation of Fad-Followers... Does He Have Better Evidence?... Discerning Tongues... and more

The News You May Have Missed: September 2025

Knock Down, Drag Out... Rainbow Refuser... Educator, Educate Thyself... Farmers vs. Flamingos... Aeroplane Afterlife... Flee Wokeness, Find Yourself at War... more

The Church’s Civilizational Task Under Leo XIV

CONFRONTING A NEW ENEMY: LATE-STAGE GLOBALISM

Michael S. Rose

Traditional societies, however flawed in practice, at least gestured toward transcendent goods in their structure and aspirations.

Is This the “Real World”?

SCENES FROM THE REALM OF COMMON EXPERIENCE

Robert McTeigue

We would do well to heed the advice of St. John Climacus, a seventh-century monk and abbot, who urged, “Flee, be silent, and pray always.”

The Corruption of the Catholic Imagination

REALITY LOST

R.V. Young

We have unwittingly acceded to the individualistic assumption that imagination is a vehicle for escaping reality rather than the capacity for grasping it with clarity.

French Disconnect

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

The archbishop of Toulouse worries about a convicted priest’s “social death.” What about the child whose life and faith the priest most assuredly destroyed?

Motives of Credibility: The Miracles of Christ

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

A remarkable amount of evidence supports the claim that Jesus was capable of performing deeds that could not be explained as natural phenomena.

What Today’s Academics Have Forgotten About Education

GUEST COLUMN

Cicero Bruce

The study of man as man ought to entail an examination of art in all its forms. From this the student gains indispensable insights into the human predicament.

An Uncommon Core: Fidelity to the Church

John M. Kainer

Any Catholic institution with a mission not anchored to the Magisterium is unlikely to make saints but is certain to produce heretics.

Briefly Reviewed: September 2025